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How to ensure security in a cloud migration
CIO followers expound on ways to stay secure when moving to the cloud.
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Google Cloud growth slows as Alphabet net income plunges
Though Google's cloud arm appears to be reining in expenses to cut losses, sales growth for the business slowed down in the fourth quarter as overall profit for parent company Alphabet declined 34%.
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AWS growth slows further by persistent macroeconomic uncertainty
Amazon’s cloud computing division, reported 20% growth in Q4, compared with 27.5% and 33% growth in Q3 and Q2 respectively.
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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations
In our most recent #CIOTechTalk Twitter chat sponsored by NTT, our experts share tips on how to cost save with cloud migration.
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C&S modernizes with wholesale shift to the cloud
The wholesale grocery distributor has partnered with Tata Consultancy Services to accelerate its migration to Google Cloud Platform and reap the benefits of an AI-enabled supply chain.
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IBM reports rise in Q4 profit, but plans to cut 3,900 jobs
Despite posting revenue growth across all its business segments, IBM is set to lay off around 1.5% of its workforce.
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SAP plans layoffs and selloff with cloud revenue up but profit down
SAP’s profitability fell sharply in 2022 despite overall revenue growth and booming cloud sales, prompting it to sell its remaining stake in Qualtrics and lay off 2,800 staff.
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Top 17 cloud cost management tools
Keeping on top of the outlay of your cloud estate is more important than ever. These platforms will help you get a pulse on your cloud use and associated costs, which can add up rapidly.
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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization
Last year brought more than its share of disruption, and there’s no sign of any let up as 2023 gains momentum. Here are ways CIOs should prepare to face any eventuality, and come out the other side even stronger.
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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value
CIO Brian Kirkland brings a forward-looking sustainability mission to bear on Choice’s cloud-native approach to delivering digital innovations to franchisees and guests alike.
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Google Cloud for Retailers adds AI-based inventory, e-commerce tools
The new capabilities include a shelf-checking AI feature and updates to Google Cloud's Discovery AI and Recommendation AI services for retailers.
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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023
Economy uncertainty, new forces in an already tight talent market, and rising technology costs top the list of tough, ongoing issues CIOs must navigate this year.
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What is FinOps? Your guide to cloud cost management
Blending finance and cloud operations, FinOps is a business discipline and set of best practices for optimizing enterprise cloud spend.
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Top cloud strategy mistakes CIOs can’t help making
Enterprise IT is increasingly fueled by the cloud. But IT leaders who don’t know how to blueprint for success are in for frustration, failed implementations, and could-be cost catastrophe.
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Oracle’s Chicago cloud region targets manufacturing, financial services
The new public cloud region will offer over 100 OCI services and applications, including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL Heatwave, OCI Data Science, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Analytics.
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Oracle to invest $2.4 billion quarterly in cloud infra as demand grows in triple digits
Cloud services as a category has been growing faster than license support business for the company, which expects cloud infrastructure margins to improve in the coming quarters.
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Microsoft signs $2.8B cloud deal with London Stock Exchange Group
The 10-year partnership calls for the London Stock Exchange Group to move all its systems to Microsoft Azure Cloud and work with the tech giant to develop new data and analytics products.
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Maersk embraces edge computing to revolutionize supply chain
The shipping giant’s APM Terminals business is developing the port of the future, replete with private 5G, AI-fortified IoT devices, and a powerful edge computing foundation.
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IT leaders weigh the case for innovation in industry clouds
CIO.com’s Stan Gibson speaks with IDC research manager Nadia Ballard, Boston Dynamics CIO Chad Wright, and Kumar Iyer, business technology senior leader at KeyBank, about industry clouds, why they’re emerging, and how they can help your organization.
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Van maker BrightDrop builds ERP and business in parallel
Business processes usually come first, and the ERP implements them. But for GM’s new electric van subsidiary, CIO Namo Tiwari explains how he went about it a different way.
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CIOs get serious about sustainability
IT leaders aren’t waiting to be pushed to address environmental concerns. Instead, they are working alone or together on new ways to advance sustainability within IT and throughout their businesses.
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PepsiCo transforms for the digital era
Transformation chief Athina Kanioura is modernizing the multinational with a digital strategy that blends cloud, analytics, automation, and an emphasis on upsklling for the future.
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What the expanding role of the CIO means to Lenovo’s Arthur Hu
For Arthur Hu, Lenovo’s SVP, global CIO, and Services & Solutions Group CTO, the CIO role in particular goes beyond traditional IT in the same way digital capabilities are expanding into every aspect of the business. Here, he discusses how the breadth and complexity of roles intertwine, and how the strengths of each come together.
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AWS makes a foray into supply chain management
At re:Invent 2022, the cloud services provider launched a new application that integrates machine learning to help enterprises get a unified view of their supply chain.
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AWS adds machine learning capabilities to Amazon Connect
At re:Invent 2022, Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of forecasting, capacity planning, scheduling, and Contact Lens features for its Amazon Connect contact center service, while introducing two new features in preview.
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Melissa & Doug buys oversized ERP to grow into
When the preschool toy company grew out of its small homebrew ERP, it skipped the midmarket offerings and went straight for an enterprise-scale system in the cloud.
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Music distributor tracks SaaS usage to boost security, satisfaction
SaaS management is about much more than cost control, says CD Baby’s VP of IT Tom Beohm.
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XPO Logistics invests in IT for the long haul
The logistics company’s less-than-truckload freight operations are fueled by in-house freight applications fine-tuned to leverage loads of data in the cloud.
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SAP seeks to make builders of business technologists
SAP Build provides enterprises with a new low-code development resource built on the same infrastructure as its pro-code development tools.
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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe
Microsoft is accused of using new licensing rules for its productivity software to push European enterprise customers toward its Azure cloud infrastructure.
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Regeneron turns to IT to accelerate drug discovery
CIO Bob McCowan’s digital and data transformation sets the stage for innovation by equipping the pharmaceutical’s scientists with the data they need to experiment and test hypotheses.
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JetBlue optimizes data operations with shift to the cloud
After struggling with an on-premises data warehouse, the airlines has unlocked self-service reporting and the power of machine learning by migrating its data to the cloud.
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Cloud spending forecast to grow despite faltering global economy
Spending on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is expected to grow the most, with platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) showing signs of slowdown, Gartner reports.
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Macroeconomic jitters further slow AWS growth in Q3
Revenue for the third quarter of 2022 marks AWS’ slowest expansion in the last few quarters.
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Alphabet pins hopes on Google Cloud as ad revenue growth declines
Google Cloud is struggling to catch up with larger rivals Microsoft and AWS, despite reporting a 38% growth in third quarter.
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Chipotle’s recipe for digital transformation: Cloud plus AI
CTO Curt Garner fortified the fast-casual chain’s digital aspirations with an all-in push for the cloud, providing a foundation for innovations aimed at improving customer experience and restaurant operations.
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Oracle adds Fusion Cloud features targeted at healthcare firms
At its CloudWorld conference, the company announced healthcare-oriented features for its Fusion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM) and Human Capital Management (HCM) suites.
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Oracle opens up ERP app platform, updates Fusion Cloud offerings
At CloudWorld, Oracle said it's opening up its applications platform for ERP customer developers, unveiled a new B2B service, and announced a slew of updates to its EPM, SCM and HCM offerings.
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CIOs get strategic in the cloud: 4 success stories
No longer viewed as a tactical, cost-saving technology, the public cloud has become the key differentiator for IT leaders seeking to transform their organizations, develop new revenue streams, and prep for future innovations.
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Salesforce seeks to unify automobile supply chain with Automotive Cloud
Built on Driver 360, Salesforce Automotive Cloud aims to offer auto makers, dealers, and finance groups a single view of customers and their vehicles, tracking interactions from factory to junkyard.
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Google Cloud AI update adds translation, document services
The company has released a new AI-based translation service called Translation Hub and added two new features to its Document AI service.
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Google to add new cloud regions across five countries
The company is adding the new regions in Austria, Greece, Norway, South Africa, and Sweden to meet growing demand and help companies meet data sovereignty requirements.
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CIOs sharpen their mainframe exit strategies
With skillsets aging, costs accruing, and ends-of-life looming, CIOs are getting serious about divesting their big iron estates, with some opting for the steep journey to the cloud.
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Inside the US Army’s ‘warfighting’ cloud
The US Army first-ever CIO, Dr. Raj Iyer, discusses the ‘game-changing’ impact the cloud, data, and AI are having in support of Ukraine’s fight against Russia and in safeguarding democracy at home.
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Magna’s multicloud fuels auto industry’s future
As a silent force helping to drive next-gen electric vehicles, the automotive multinational is relying on a hybrid multicloud approach to spin up digital twins for designing advanced auto components using vast troves of data.
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'Don't be surprised if I am an AI,' says Nvidia's CEO
Jensen Huang was only joking — but the cloud-based simulation-as-a-service technologies he demonstrated at Nvidia’s GTC Fall conference mean CIOs should take him seriously.
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A third of Oracle revenue now comes from cloud services
The company is betting on moving large enterprise customers from AWS and Azure to OCI in the coming quarters as cloud revenue crosses $3.6 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2023.
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Cropin’s agriculture industry cloud to provide apps, data frameworks
The agriculture industry cloud is a combination of separate applications that the Bengaluru-headquartered startup has released since inception.
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6 top managed cloud services providers—and how to choose
Our buyer's guide will help you select the right managed cloud services provider for your needs.
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Healthcare interoperability and industry cloud: What to look for
Decision makers have many choices on the healthcare cloud offering. Here are some of the differentiators for healthcare.-
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